Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Volumen16

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Página 215 - DC" The essential requirements to securing an invitation are that the applicant shall be a citizen of the United States, shall be between 22 and 30 years of age, a graduate of a medical school legally authorized to confer the degree of doctor of medicine, shall be of good moral character and habits, and shall have had at least one year's hospital training as an interne, after graduation.
Página 140 - That for the purpose of securing a list of persons specially qualified to hold commissions in any volunteer force which may hereafter be called for and organized under the authority of Congress, other than a force composed of organized militia...
Página 323 - ... and enveloping the entire body with a layer of cotton not less than one inch thick, and all wrapped in a sheet...
Página 215 - ... degree of doctor of medicine, shall be of good moral character and habits, and shall have had at least one year's hospital training or its equivalent in practice. The examinations will be held concurrently throughout the country at points where boards can be convened. Due consideration will be given to the localities from which applications are received, in order to lessen the traveling expenses of applicants as much as possible.
Página 79 - Corps. The commissions so given shall confer upon the holders all the authority, rights, and privileges of commissioned officers of the like grade in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, except promotions, but only when called into active duty as hereinafter provided and during the period of such active duty.
Página 196 - The outfit for candidates grows more expensive, because they wear about fourteen pounds' weight of padding and armor. On the whole the game, under existing rules, tends to become slower and less visible in its details, and therefore less interesting. Moreover, the ethics of the game, which are the imperfect ethics of war. do not improve. The martial axiom — attack the enemy's weakest point — inevitably leads to the deliberate onslaught on the cripple, or the convalescent, in the opposing line,...
Página 133 - Not only does a competent medical service, by safeguarding the health of the Army, contribute greatly to its power, but it gives to the families of the nation a guaranty that their fathers, brothers, and sons who are wounded in battle or sicken in camp shall have not only skilled medical aid, but also that prompt and well-ordereil attention to all their wants which can come only by an adequate and trained personnel. I am satisfied...
Página 137 - Act to increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States Army, approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight.
Página 139 - That should the officer fail in his physical examination, and be found incapacitated for service by reason of physical disability contracted in line of duty he shall be retired with the rank to which his seniority entitled him to be promoted...
Página 134 - ... aid, but also that prompt and well-ordered attention to all their wants which can come only by an adequate and trained personnel. I am satisfied that the Medical Corps is much too small for the needs of the present Army, and therefore very much too small for its successful expansion in time of war to meet the needs of an enlarged Army and in addition to furnish the volunteer service a certain number of officers trained in medical administration. A bill which, in the opinion of the Secretary of...

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